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Comment Re:Great! (Score 2) 32

That actually happened to me.

My business (and me personally) have never had a Facebook account.

Imagine my surprise about ten years ago when I discovered a Facebook account for my business that had apparently been automatically created by them. I looked into this a bit and discovered that if enough people say they are at your business (somehow, they note their presence through their own Facebook account?) then Facebook creates an account for your business automatically.

I just ignore this thing that they created on their own. I don't have a Facebook account and my business doesn't either.

Comment TikTok divestiture law doesn't allow extensions (Score 3, Interesting) 21

The TikTok divestiture law, officially known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, mandates that ByteDance must divest its ownership of TikTok by January 19, 2025, or face a nationwide ban.

The law contains no provision for extending or changing that deadline.

Trump has no authority to extend or change the deadline since that date was written directly into the law.

Note that the date is almost a year ago now....

Comment Re:did he use an auto pen on this? (Score 1) 129

Let's wait for some precedent or at least a strong hint of inclination before we assume that future Dem presidents will also take the wannabe-dictator path from now on. While all future US presidents will have the opportunity to be mini-dictators until some much-needed guardrails are added, so far only one party (and in fact only one man) has taken it.

Comment Re:New Religious War (Score 2) 201

Times New Roman is not a Microsoft invention. It was commissioned by The Times in 1931 as an update to their former font Times Roman, also known as Times.

The update from Times Roman to Times New Roman was intended to address more modern printing techniques and aesthetics.

But neither Times Roman or Times New Roman has anything to do with Microsoft; it was all done decades before Bill Gates was born.

Comment Re:Two Bits Of Bad News... (Score 1) 95

I guess you missed this part:

The firm’s findings still contrast strongly with those put forward by three Australia-based academics, who estimated in 2019 that based on transactional data from 2009 to 2017, one-quarter of all 106 million Bitcoin users engaged in crime, and that by 2018, illicit finance accounted for around $76 billion a year, or roughly half, of all transactions in bitcoins.

Cryptocurrencies have transformed drug trafficking by enabling crime syndicates to cut out street dealers and sell directly to customers around the world through darknet markets, as well as peddle higher-quality narcotics, said Sean Foley, a finance professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and one of the report’s authors.

“Chainalysis is trying to tell us about the total consumption of cocaine in Australia by telling us about how much cocaine has been seized,” Foley said. “It’s very difficult for me to meaningfully comment on the methodology because they don’t really tell you what they do.”

Comment Re: Get a warrant (Score 1) 48

I guess I'm not seeing the problem here.

In a "standard" investigation the police might get an eyewitness account of a crime where the suspect is described in detail.

At what point do they need a warrant?

According to your logic, a warrant would be required before they knock on the eyewitness's door and ask if he's seen anything suspicious.

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